Varun Dhawan is not playing hockey legend Dhyan Chand Or Abhinav Bindra as reported. While the makers have b3een keen to cast in these roles, biopics are not on his mind right now.
He says, “I have not been offered Dhyan Chand. I know it’s the current trend to do biopics, but it’s not something that excites me right now.”
He adds that he would be excited only if something unusual came his way. “I have been offered biopics but nothing that I can go crazy about and accept. If something interesting comes, I might think of doing it, but as of now I am just happy with the kind of films I am doing.”
He continues “My next film Badrinath Ki Dulhaniya is a biopic for me. I am playing a boy from Jhansi. Director Shashank Khaitan has drawn this character very realistically and that’s the way he shoots it, too. I try to do every film of mine like a biopic. In Dishoom, I play Junaid Ansari who is probably some boy whose parents live in India but then he has to shift and live there.”
Varun says he can’t stop stressing on the importance of picking the right scripts. “Today, audiences are exposed to so much more, their tastes are changing by the minute. The Indian masses are even more emotional about things, and so, the greater the rise the greater the fall. You have to be very careful about what you do and can’t do anything that you want — mein yeh bhi kar loon aur aisa bhi kar loon...”
He continues, “I am too young, I don’t understand the Indian audience so much right now but I don’t want to make that mistake of having anyone to turn on me by hurting them by doing a wrong choice of films. Badlapur was a big risk but I knew that his character had an emotional connect to the audience which was the death of his family. If that was not there, he would have become a completely negative character.”
